Author Information: Stacy Aumonier

Stacy Aumonier (1887-1928), son of a sculptor, was educated at Cranleigh, and began his career as a designer and a landscape painter, frequently exhibiting at the Royal Academy and various London galleries. He served as a private in the First World War, and died in Switzerland at the age of forty-one. Although he wrote a number of successful novels, he was more popular as a writer of short stories, some of which won for him prestigious literary prizes.